Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday raised the alarm that the country is currently in a critical situation with the increasing number of confirmed COVID-19 cases.

According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, the Vice President made the observation when he toured the facilities of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s Reference Laboratory, Gaduwa, Abuja, accompanied by the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire; Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora; and the Director-General, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu.
The statement was titled “Not yet where we want, but we are making significant progress in public health sector, says Osinbajo.”

Akande quoted Osinbajo as lamenting that “we have a critical situation on our hands currently with the increasing number of cases being recorded.”

Despite this, however, the Vice President was further quoted as saying that a lot of progress has been made since Nigeria’s first case was reported in February 2020.
He said, “We have activated nearly 120 laboratories nationwide – 70 of them public laboratories – and have significantly ramped up our testing and case management capacity.

“We have expanded the footprint of our sovereign public health response capabilities especially at the subnational level and in areas where previously such capabilities did not exist.

“Not so long ago, test samples had to be flown out of the country for examination. This is no longer the case as we now have the capacity to process samples internally.”

Osinbajo said the achievements recorded so far should not be taken for granted.

He added that the present regime was committed to consolidating on them.

“While we are not yet where we want to be as a nation, we are most certainly not where we were at the onset of the pandemic,” he said.

The Vice President then commended Nigeria’s public and private healthcare specialists and workers in the line of duty for ensuring the safety, cure and prevention of the majority of Nigerians from the COVID-19 virus, sometimes und
er extremely challenging circumstances.
He said, “Thousands of health professionals have been working tirelessly on Nigeria’s COVID-19 public health response.

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“From the people across sample collection sites and laboratories ensuring testing, and our dedicated physicians, nurses and other health workers in treatment centres providing care to the sick, to our medical scientists that are conducting research on various aspects of this plague.

“We also have state public health teams working hard to ensure data reporting and analysis, contact tracing, risk communications and so much more
“Within this period, you have all worked extremely hard to activate testing in all states of our country, you have increased our knowledge of this disease, grown our capacity to swiftly identify those infected by the plague and render aid to them.”

Osinbajo said he was aware that the work they do can often seem thankless and the long hours put in unnoticed and unappreciated.
“Often it happens in the background and in the shadows, away from public attention and it will not often grab the headlines. But it only seems this way. In truth, this is the sort of work that builds nations and saves lives.

“When the record of our response to this unprecedented threat to our public health is written, the efforts of our healthcare professionals will occupy a significant place with the thanks of a grateful nation,” he said.
The Vice President spoke on the research of Nigerians towards getting a cure for the COVID-19 virus.

He said, “Last week I was in briefing meetings, listening to the landmark research of a team of Professors from LUTH who are investigating the efficacy of some of the drugs in the therapeutic management of COVID-19 and are researching its prophylactic use.

“A few days later, I was listening to Prof Christian Happi and his team who have produced a ground-breaking COVID-19 rapid test, but more remarkably, are developing a Nigerian anti-COVID-19 vaccine.”
Osinbajo urged Nigerians to continue to comply with COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical measures.

My advice to all Nigerians is to continue to comply with COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical measures.

We will win this battle. I believe

COVID19 menace-yes VP Osinbajo but that is a global issue.However, what about the worse menace of fulani herdsmen terrorists back home that have polarized this nation @ present especially in the SW region? Or you're not from the region?

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
(Esther 4:8‭, ‬14‭, ‬16)

Like queen Esther of old, please get up from your comfort zone and speak up for all the defenseless people being killed by bandits, fulani/Boko Haram terrorists across this nation

Where is the Covid?

How does it look like?

oga shun covid and let's know your stance on the killers and rapist terrorising us back home or STFU for life

I'm beginning to think this dude will play a whole northern game if he finally succeeds his boss

The government is working to secure vaccine for the citizens, it is our duty to take the jab and forget about what people are saying especially the white want to depopulate Africans...Africa needs this vaccines and get our continent back together....Religious and traditional leaders have key role to play in this....It will be so unfortunate if government secured the vaccines and people refuse to take them.....Lets not play this one too down as we played the Polio programme

is covid the main problem in Nigeria? what about fulani herdsmen and bad governance

You left the monster inside your bedroom to pursue flies

Rubbish!! In Nigeria Fulani heardsmen are more dangerous than COVID-19.

Jollylolly:
The government is working to secure vaccine for the citizens, it is our duty to take the jab and forget about what people are saying especially the white want to depopulate Africans...Africa needs this vaccines and get our continent back together....Religious and traditional leaders have key role to play in this....It will be so unfortunate if government secured the vaccines and people refuse to take them.....Lets not play this one too down as we played the Polio programme

The Corona virus was manufactured in Wuhan China as a biological warfare pathogen, but then either by accident or by design, the virus was vented into the air outside that facility, in 2020, causing the first outbreak of the pandemic in Wuhan China. Rather than lock Wuhan down and block travel in and out of the area, the Chinese tried to keep the outbreak secret, and even went to the extent of killing a Chinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm. The direct consequence of China's deliberate and malicious cover-up following the initial virus outbreak in Wuhan China, has been the GLOBAL pandemic that is now in progress.

With the pandemic now rampaging across the entire planet, the ONLY vaccines known to be safe and efficacious, are those made in the West by Phizer Moderna, and it is those vaccines now being injected en-masse into the populations of the USA, the UK and the EU. The Phizer/Moderna vaccine is certainly effective and would be most welcome in Africa, IF the continent's leaders are prepared to purchase it in bulk, while also importing the specialized refrigeration equipment needed to store the vaccine prior to its use.

Any vaccine that originates from China, however, must be regarded with EXTREME suspicion, because the Chinese already nurse plans to annex Africa as a part of "Greater China", where they will then be free to plunder the African continent with wanton impunity, for ALL her abundant natural resources. This grand scheme by the Chinese, will be greatly facilitated if the Chinese can successfully depopulate Africa, using a deliberately deadly vaccine that will infect as many Africans as possible with the Wuhan Corona virus.

If Nigeria chooses to import the 95% effective Phizer/ Moderna vaccine from Europe, all right thinking people resident in Nigeria would be wise to accept their dose quickly. If, on the other hand, Nigeria imports the Wuhan Corona virus death vaccine from China, then anyone interested in living out their natural lifespan, would be well advised to REFUSE that deliberate pathogen infection vaccine, as a matter of existential survival. Take any Chinese-made vaccine at your peril. You have been warned.